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  2. Common practice period - Wikipedia

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    In European art music, the common practice period was the period of about 250 years during which the tonal system was regarded as the only basis for composition. It began when composers' use of the tonal system had clearly superseded earlier systems, and ended when some composers began using significantly modified versions of the tonal system, and began developing other systems as well.

  3. Renaissance music - Wikipedia

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    The period may be roughly subdivided, with an early period corresponding to the career of Guillaume Du Fay (c. 1397 –1474) and the cultivation of cantilena style, a middle dominated by Franco-Flemish School and the four-part textures favored by Johannes Ockeghem (1410s or '20s–1497) and Josquin des Prez (late 1450s–1521), and culminating ...

  4. Harmony - Wikipedia

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    Subordinate harmony is the hierarchical tonality or tonal harmony well known today. Coordinate harmony is the older Medieval and Renaissance tonalité ancienne, "The term is meant to signify that sonorities are linked one after the other without giving rise to the impression of a goal-directed development. A first chord forms a 'progression ...

  5. Tonality - Wikipedia

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    Tonality is the arrangement of pitches and / or chords of a musical work in a hierarchy of perceived relations, stabilities, attractions, and directionality. In this hierarchy, the single pitch or the root of a triad with the greatest stability in a melody or in its harmony is called the tonic. In this context "stability" approximately means ...

  6. Outline of classical music - Wikipedia

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    Common practice periodperiod of about 250 years during which the tonal system was regarded as the only basis for composition. It began when composers' use of the tonal system had clearly superseded earlier systems, and ended when some composers began using significantly modified versions of the tonal system, and began developing other systems as well.

  7. Music theory - Wikipedia

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    In music, harmony is the use of simultaneous pitches (tones, notes), or chords. [46]: p. 15 The study of harmony involves chords and their construction and chord progressions and the principles of connection that govern them. [49]

  8. Atonality - Wikipedia

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    Atonality in its broadest sense is music that lacks a tonal center, or key. Atonality, in this sense, usually describes compositions written from about the early 20th-century to the present day, where a hierarchy of harmonies focusing on a single, central triad is not used, and the notes of the chromatic scale function independently of one another. [1]

  9. Post-tonal music theory - Wikipedia

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    Post-tonal music theory is the set of theories put forward to describe music written outside of, or 'after', the tonal system of the common practice period.It revolves around the idea of 'emancipating dissonance', that is, freeing the structure of music from the familiar harmonic patterns that are derived from natural overtones.